Precise 40Ar-39Ar ages from the metamorphic sole rocks of the Tauride Belt Ophiolites, southern Turkey: Implications for the rapid cooling history

Geological Magazine

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-227

  Çelik, Ömer Faruk ^a   Delaloye, Michel ^b   Feraud, Gilbert ^c  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

East Mediterranean; Geochronology; Neotethys; Ophiolite; Turkey

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; EAST MEDITERRANEAN; HARZBURGITES; NEOTETHYS; OPHIOLITE; RAPID COOLING; SOUTHERN TURKEYS; TURKEY;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; OPHIOLITE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

LYCIA;

EID: 33646266273     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756805001524     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Andrew, T. & Robertson, A. H. F. 2002. The Beysehir-Hoyran-Hadim (B-H-H) Nappes: Mesozoic marginal and oceanic units of the Northern Neotethys in Southern Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society, London 59, 529-43.
2. Baǧci, U, Parlak, O., Höck, V. & Delaloye, M. 2002. Suprasubduction origin of the Antalya Ophiolite (Southern Turkey): Deduced from the Mineral Chemistry of the Ultramafic-Mafic Cumulate Rocks. In 1st International Symposium of Istanbul Technical University, 16-18 May 2002, Istanbul, Turkey, p. 140.
3. Çelik, Ö. F. 2002. Geochemical, Petrological and Geochronological Observations on the Metamorphic Rocks of the Tauride Belt Ophiolites (S. Turkey). Terre & Environment 39, Université de Genève, 257 pp. (published Ph.D. thesis).
4. 39Ar and K-Ar age implications and geochemical constraints on metamorphic rocks of the Tauride Belt Ophiolites (Southern Turkey). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66 (15A), A125 Supplement.
5. Çelik, Ö. F. & Delaloye, M. F. 2003. Origin of metamorphic soles and their post-kinematic mafic dyke swarms in the Antalya and Lycian ophiolites, SW Turkey. Geological Journal 38, 235-56.
6. Çelik, Ö. F. & Delaloye, M. F. 2004. Mineral chemistry and P-T conditions of metamorphic sole rocks from the Lycian and the Antalya ophiolites, western Taurides (SW Turkey). In Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology, 14-20 April 2004 (eds A. A. Chatzipetros and S. B. Pavlides), p. 241. Thessaloniki, Greece.
7. Çelik, Ö. F. & Delaloye, M. F. 2006. Characteristics of ophiolite-related metamorphic rocks in the Beyşehir ophiolitic mélange (Central Taurides, Turkey), deduced from whole rock and mineral chemistry. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 26, doi: 10.1016/ j.jseaes.2004.10.008, in press.
8. Collins, A. S. & Robertson, A. H. F. 1997. Lycian melange, southwestern Turkey: An emplaced Late Cretaceous accretionary complex. Geology 25, 255-8.
9. Collins, A. S. & Robertson, A. H. F. 1998. Processes of Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene episodic thrust-sheet translation in the Lycian Taurides, SW Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society, London 155, 759-72.
10. Collins, A. S. & Robertson, A. H. F. 2003. Kinematic evidence for Late Mesozoic-Miocene emplacement of the Lycian Allochton over the western Anatolide Belt, SW Turkey. Geological Journal 38, 295-310.
11. Dilek, Y. & Moores, E. M. 1990. Regional tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean ophiolites. In Ophiolites - oceanic crustal analogues: Proceedings of Troodos ophiolite symposium-1987 (eds J. Malpas, E. Moores, A. Panayiotou and C. Xenophontos), pp. 295-309. Geological Survey, Cyprus.
12. Dilek, Y., Thy, P., Hacker, B. & Grundvig, S. 1999. Structure and petrology of Tauride ophiolites and mafic dyke intrusions (Turkey): implications for the Neotethyan ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111, 1192-1216.
13. Graham, M. C. & Powell, R. 1984. A garnet-hornblende geothermometer: calibration, testing, and application to the Pelona Schist, Southern California. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 2, 13-31.
14. Hanson, G. N. & Gast, P. W. 1967. Kinetic studies in contact metamorphic zones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 31, 1119-53.
15. 40Ar in hornblende. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 78, 324-31.
16. Holland, T. J. B. & Blundy, J. D. 1994. Non-Ideal interactions in calcic amphiboles and their bearing on amphibole-plagioclase thermometry. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 116, 433-47.
17. Jones, G., Robertson, A. H. F. & Cann, J. R. 1991. Genesis and emplacement of the supra-subduction zone Pindos ophiolite, northwestern Greece. In Ophiolite Genesis and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere (eds T. J. Peters, A. Nicolas and R. G. Coleman), pp. 771-9. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing.
18. Juteau, T. 1980. Ophiolites of Turkey. Ofioliti 2, 199-235.
19. Leake, B. E., Woolley, A. R., Arps, C. E. S., Birch, W. D., Gilbert, M. C., Grice, J. D., Hawthorne, F. C., Kato, A., Kisch, H. J., Krivovichev, V. G., Linthout, K., Laird, J., Mandarino, J., Maresch, W. V., Nickel, E. H., Rock, N. M. S., Schumacher, J. C., Smith, D. C., Stephenson, N. C. N., Ungaretti, L., Whittaker, E. J. W. & Youzhi, G. 1997. Nomenclature of amphiboles: Report of the subcommitee on amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association, commission on new minerals and mineral names. American Mineralogist 82, 1019-37.
20. Özgül, N., 1976. Toroslarin bazi temel jeoloji özellikleri. Geological Society of Turkey Bulletin 19, 65-78.
21. Parlak, O. 1996. Geochemistry and geochronology of the Mersin ophiolite within the eastern Mediterranean tectonic frame (southern Turkey). Terre & Environment 6, Université de Genève, 242 pp. (published Ph.D. thesis).
22. 39Ar ages from the metamorphic sole of the Mersin ophiolite (Southern Turkey). Tectonophysics 301, 145-58.
23. Parlak, O., Delaloye, M. & Bingöl, E. 1995. Origin of sub-ophiolitic metamorphic rocks beneath the Mersin ophiolite, Southern Turkey. Ofioliti 20, 97-110.
24. Parlak, O. & Robertson, A. H. F. 2004. The ophiolite-related Mersin Melange, southern Turkey: Its role in the tectonic-sedimentary setting of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Geological Magazine 141, 257-86.
25. Pearce, J. A., Lippard, S. J. & Roberts, S. 1984. Characteristics and tectonic significance of supra-subduction zone ophiolites. In Marginal Basin Geology (eds B. P. Kokelaar and M. F. Howells), pp. 77-89. Geological Society of London, Special Publication no. 16.
26. Polat, A. & Casey J. F. 1995. A structural record of the emplacement of the Pozanti-Karsanti ophiolite onto the Menderes-Taurus block in Late Cretaceous, eastern Taurides, Turkey. Journal of Structural Geology 17, 1673-88.
27. 39Ar dating. Chemical Geology 145, 117-52.
28. Ricou, L. E., Argriadis, I. & Marcoux, J. 1975. L'axe calcaire du Taurus, une alignement de fenêtres arabo-africaines sous des nappes radiolaritiques, ophiolitiques et métamorphiques. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 17, 1024-43.
29. Robertson, A. H. F. 1994. Role of tectonic facies concept in orogenic analysis and its application to Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Earth Science Review 37, 139-213.
30. Robertson, A. H. F. & Woodcock, N. H. 1980. Mamonia Complex, southwest Cyprus: Evolution and emplacement of a Mesozoic continental margin. Geological Society of America Bulletin 90, 651-65.
31. Robertson, A. H. F. 2000. Mesozoic-Tertiary tectonic-sedimentary evolution of a south Tethyan oceanic basin and its margins in southern Turkey. In Tectonics and Magmatism in Turkey and Surrounding Area (eds E. Bozkurt, J. A. Winchester and J. D. A. Piper), pp. 43-82. Geological Society of London, Special Publication no. 173.
32. Şengör, A. M. C. & Yilmaz, Y. 1981. Tethyan evolution of Turkey: A plate tectonic approach. Tectonophysics 75, 181-241.
33. Smith, A. G., Hurley, A. M. & Briden, J. C. 1981. Phanerozoic palaeocontinental maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Steiger, R. H. & Jaeger, E. 1977. Subcommission on Geochronology: convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 55, 359-62.
35. Thuizat, R., Whitechurch, H., Montigny, R. & Juteau, T. 1981. K-Ar dating of some infra-ophiolitic metamorphic soles from the eastern Mediterranean: New evidence for oceanic thrusting before obduction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 52, 302-10.
36. Whitechurch, H., Juteau, T. & Montigny, R. 1984. Role of the eastern Mediterranean ophiolites (Turkey, Syria, Cyprus) in the history of the Neotethys. In The geological evolution of the eastern Mediterranean (eds J. E. Dixon and A. H. F. Robertson), pp. 301-17. Geological Society of London, Special Publication no. 17.
37. Yilmaz, P. O. & Maxwell, J. C. 1982. K-Ar investigations from the Antalya Complex ophiolites, SW Turkey. Ofioliti 7, 527-38.
38. Yilmaz, P. O. & Maxwell, J. C. 1984. An example of an obduction mélange: The Alakir Çay unit, Antalya Complex, southwest Turkey In Mélanges: Their Nature, Origin, and Significance (eds L. A. Raymond), pp. 139-52. Geological Society of America, Special Publication no. 198.